That's cool, good on Morgan! I'd not seen his films before, but they're pretty decent. Thanks for sharing

While positive exposure for the hobby is always nice, I hope it won't come across as bitter if I say that I think it's pretty weird how much publicity Morgan has gotten for his videos over the past few months considering the low production value and attention to detail of these recreations. I wonder if this is luck, or a really good publicist at work.

It really is about building networks.  Those with larger networks and connections to social media will always get the most views.  Good quality is not necessary - average quality will suffice to stop the average joe hitting unsubscribe.

I think it's pretty cool when brickfilms are becoming more popular, although this probably wouldn't be the best example of it, however, it's not terrible.

I think the reason it has become popular is simply because he's been recreating movie scenes, thus building off of the popularity of pre-existing material.  I think someone on this site before remarked that people often would rather see something they've already seen before, which may be the case here.

A much better example would perhaps have been Brotherhood or ForlornCreature.  Both of whom make stuff based off of pre-existing material, but Brotherhood makes some clever jokes, and Forlorn makes interesting stories about Minecraft.  Plus they both keep pretty high production values (particularly the latter).

Morgan is the equivalent of a Sci-Fi channel original movie writer.  There are so many talented writers just trying to break into TV, and yet people who have written Sci-Fi original movies get on TV!

But when I saw John D Thunder's well-made BRAWL entry on national TV, that was a great moment!

Welp, if it makes people go and watch Morgan's videos then hopefully they'll also find out about Brickfilming as a whole - and maybe they'll discover works like The Magic Portal and Unrenewable.

For some reason I can't help but be happy for the guy. (I actually feel really bad that I used to constantly bash Forrestfire101 years ago...)

There's definitely better brickfilmers. And then there's worse brickfilmers. Way worse brickfilmers.

I wouldn't really complain. Maybe instead some 10-year-old recreated a film scene in 5 FPS with half of the stuff in the scene looking out of place or crappily constructed and would've been famed for it. That would be way worse.

I agree with this. I think this community gets a rep for being elitist sometimes and I'm trying not to contribute to that with my words in this thread. But I felt obliged to mention that I have a negative opinion of this sort of attention for the hobby rather than a positive one, simply because I do think it is sort of a damaging/marginalizing way of presenting the hobby to the public.

As mentioned before, it's pretty clear the popularity/mention on the show is due to the fact Morgan recreated famous movie scenes--it seems that in this case Brickfilming is being thought of as merely something to recreate existing material in a "cute" or whimsical manner, rather than its own artistic medium as capable of carrying its own unique and well-made stories as live-action or other forms of animation.  As everyone on this website knows, basing something off a pre-existing IP is a sure-fire guarantee to gain more views and popularity (see: every Licensed Brickfilm debate ever). 

This approach also lends itself well to internet culture in general, I think, as something like "movie moments in LEGO" will grab attention, and it is easily liked and shared.  Sadly the prevalent popular attitude seems towards Brickfilming seems to be "hey look, this guy recreated famous movie scenes using legos" rather than "this person invested an insane amount of time writing a script, recording voices, building sets, then painstakingly animating every single frame of this film, all to tell his own original and unique story".  Even Michael Hickox seems to make Brickfilms based largely off what a non-LEGO fan's perception of LEGO is: simple, nostalgic and child-like, rather than a medium that can be used to tell a much wider variety of story. Though I suppose this could be said of film-making in general, given that "let's plays", vlogs, and memes dominate the web in terms of popularity whilst amazingly well-made short films such as this [note: does contain a bit of language] have nowhere near that amount of recognition.

With all this being said, even if Morgan may not be deserving of all this publicity compared to other Brickfilmers, he's far from being the worst one to gain this sort of recognition *cough*acertainStarWarsteasertrailer*cough*.  And it's nice to see a Brickfilmer not named Forrestfire or Keshen get popular (not that I'm trying to disparage them, but it's good to see some variety).  Hopefully at least it'll encourage Morgan to improve his Brickfilming skills, and make some truly amazing works.  Who knows, it might even make some people discover Brickfilming as a whole, and they might eventually become accomplished Brickfilmers as well.